Posted on 01/30/2009 9:57:12 AM PST by ReagansRaiders
Second ballot:
168 ballots. 85 to win --
Mike Duncan - 48
Michael Steele - 48
Katon Dawson - 29
Saul Anuzis - 24
Ken Blackwell - 19
>Four threads currently in “Breaking News” on this. Wake up mods!!<
But the cool kids are on this thread ;)
Lol, I’ll try!
I agree with you on Steele's competence. I do not agree with any of the "We don't need to..." arguments, because that just means we're not playing the same game as the Democrats.
Any time someone tells me that "we don't need to do...," all I hear is that we're bringing a knife to a gunfight. Like it or not, the Democrats and the MSM make the rules of engagement, and we often choose not to play as rough as they do.
-PJ
“His single Mom making a pittance raised him in Baltimore. he managed to escape and get into Johns Hopkins.”
Not germaine to the issue. He is now a gun-grabber, and a raging RINO. I will not support him or those like him, regardless of their deprived upbringing.
I think Steele has done a masterful job in promoting his candidacy on the public airwaves. He has shown that he can speak for the party in an affable and effective way.
I made my decision and I'm sticking with it!!
Steele is looking confident.
there is hope
Confidence in the face of uncertainty is a good leadership quality.
5th Ballot:
Steele 79
Dawson 69
Anuzis 20
Someone called him an elitist. His humble background is relevant to refuting that point.
http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0405web/steele.html
Steele has three heroes in life: Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan, and Maebell Turner.
Told in broad outline, his mother’s tale brushes at every turn against trial and tribulation. Born into a sharecropping family in South Carolina, she quit school to work the tobacco fields. As a teen, she followed her mother in the great African American migration north, landing in Washington, D.C., where she got a job in a laundromat, a job she’d keep for 45 years. She married an abusive, philandering alcoholic. Their two children were quite young when he died of a poisoned liver at age 36.
Steele, who was born in 1958, still marvels at times over his rather desperate beginnings: “I’m what, four, five years old when he died? What kind of prospects do I have? A black child in a segregated city with a mom making minimum wage?” Laughter rides in a spasm across broad shoulders and then down arms spread to full wingspan. “Doesn’t look real good!”
He was raised in the northwest D.C. enclave of Petworth at the tail end of a tumultuous transformation. In 1950, the neighborhood was basically all white. By 1960, it was three-quarters black. Still, Steele recalls the place with nostalgic fondness. Big oak trees, quiet streets, and close-knit families insulated Petworth from the city’s harsher corners, he says.
After burying her husband, Maebell Turner went back to the laundromat. Friends counseled her to apply for assistance — perhaps welfare would pay enough to allow her to stay home with Michael and his sister, Monica.
Years later, Steele would ask his mother point blank why she ignored that advice.
“I didn’t want the government raising my children,” she said.
Fifth ballot:
Steele 79
Dawson 69
Anuzis 20
Wonder which way Anuzis folks are going to break. Man oh man this is something.
Anuzis is ready to withdraw
Anuzis speaks - withdraws, no endorsement
Interesting point.
I would think that they would go for Steele, at least enough to put him over the top.
This is when I wish C-Span wouldn’t switch to some boring press conference or professor of something being interviewed. I would like to watch the room and see who’s talking to whom.
All he needs is six votes to Dawson's 16.
Saul's base of support was Northern (but not Michigan) so I'm guessing the majority go to Steele.
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